News of CD-R/CD-RW Drives

Anyone have any hands-on experience with this drive? How is its performance and reliablility compared to the similar LITE-ON product?

:D Thanks!

When using Nero's Infotool, I show that the drive can read at 52x but can only write at 40x. Ideas? BTW, I'm using the firmware that came installed on the drive, I have both the CDR and the CD connected as master to the primary and secondary IDE channels on the MB and I have the two hard drives connected through a ATA/100 controller card. Thanks for the help!!

I'm looking at getting a Buslink 52x24x52x this weekend. I think its made by LITE-ON but not sure. http://www.buslink.com/ver2/CDRW52x.htm

Anyone know how good its reliablity and performance is for making audio CDs? I could not find any reviews on it.

:) Thanks!

New firmware 1.01 for Plextor PX-W4012TS

PX-W4012TS V1.01 (14 February 2003)
Fixed Bugs:
Hang-up after eject of discs written by InCD under Windows 2000/XP
Eject problems during self diagnostic
Added:
VariRec at 1x writing
Correct identification of >79 minutes media
Writing up to 99 minutes

http://www.plextor.be/english/technical ... 012TS.html
(Plextor Europe)

I recently bought an LG GCE-8320B 32x10x40 CD-RW drive and now I'm having problems with burning a 800MB cd. LG reads all 800MB cd's as a 700mb. Is it hardware problem? I'm working with Nero v.5.5.9.0, WinOnCD v.5.0 Power Edition and CD-RW recorder firmware v1.04.

Regards

Maya

I've had my Liteon 48246S for almost two months now, amd I recently found out that this burner does support Mt Rainier, well according to Nero Info Toolkit, Mt Rainier was ticked in the box. But I'm quite mad that Liteon did not mention this on their box or even on their website, it's mentioned on the box of their new 52x burner and also on the website re their 52x burner.

Is there any concensus on which chipset is the highest performance/best quality? Or is brandname a better indicator of overall performance/quality?

I'm like that guy in the CDW commercial who tells his IT guy: "Fred: All I know about computer is I want a better one than everybody else has" 8)

WinXP fresh install - no other software just nero 5.5.107b latest
samsung SW-224B R205 - latest rom
harddisc Seagate barracuda ATA 5 120GB
512MG PC133 SDRAM
asus A7V-E Motherboard
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900 - running at 990
using asus bios setup to overcloak 10%
both burner & HDD using ata-100 cable to connect to MB
harddisk defragmented using diskeeper

primary master - Seagate barracuda
secondary master - samsung SW-224B

nero infotools says
primary master - ...

Hi,
I decided to buy a CDRW. lite-on maybe ;)

But which of these options is better:

1. To buy 48/24/48 drive /S or W is better??/
2. To buy 48/16/48 drive and to flash it to 48/24/48.
3. To buy 40/16/40 drive and to flash it to 48/24/48.

Thank you

P.S. What does CMC mean?

CDRLabs has taken a look at LG's newest CD-RW, the GCE-8520B. Featuring some of the fastest speeds currently available, the GCE-8520B reads and writes at 52x and rewrites at a blazing 24x. Thanks to its MediaTek chipset, the GCE-8520B also has features like Super Link buffer underrun protection, a 2MB buffer and support for the Mt. Rainier format. Does the GCE-8520B deliver the level of performance and features LG is known for? Is it the ...